It's interesting seeing more detail on Fortune's Weave. I'm excited to see how it ends up going, and to learn more about these characters. Though, has anyone noticed the colours are super weird?
People have already talked about how every dark-skinned character is grey (which is already weird enough) but I've also noticed that the characters have a lot of colours
I noticed this most on Sirocco, but it's also Leda and some of the others
On this bust portrait of Sirocco, I counted 13 distinct colours, and from the model he has even more on the rest of his outfit.
A lot of colours is not strictly bad character design, but they're not necessarily grouped together either. He's got cool purples, yellows and turquoise, a dusty warm skin tone, then highly saturated warm reds, greens, and silvers. There's no pattern to which hues are dark or saturated
Even comparing his design against two other characters with a lot of contrasting colours, Petra still only has 10 (which can be grouped into about 7 due to similar shades) and Daichi has 7. This is despite seeing more of their bodies
The colours themselves have more design to them. Peta is mid-toned purples/red + contrasting saturated green and yellow. Then Daichi is dark cool green/blue with a bright pink and orange.
I'd assumed it was just what the Three Houses designer was always like, but they'd previously stuck to analogous palettes (to the point of the Golden Deer each having a single colour)
To be fair to the designer, this isn't uniform. Ursula, Dietrich, and Ninae have pretty elegant designs, with one of two main colours with black and silver as a neutral
But even when the number of colours is an elegant choice, the contrast between them is quite strange, like Alexandra wearing a pink and turquoise that are almost exactly the same value against each other
It's interesting when something feels a bit incohesive, because the best colour design in Fire Emblem has a real gift for it
Fates is desaturated, with a focus on dark colours with pops of highly saturated reds
Shadows of Valentia keeps a low contrast and a focus on papery golds
Even something highly saturated like the Arcana keeps a heavy focus on saturated reds, golds, and blues with contrasting black and white
